I could relate to many points in this passage. Sometimes I, and I’m sure other students as well, get lazy and look for the easy way out. We do minimal work and expect a good grade; however it is not usually the case. Instead, the slacking catches up to us and we end up lost. We do not understand what is going on in class, and we end up cheating ourselves out of an important lesson. It was interesting to read how teachers are also playing “The Game of School”, because I had never looked at it that way. Teachers also sometimes take the easy way out, but students see it as an “easy A”; however, this, too, is cheating students out of important lessons. If students and teachers stopped playing this “game” students would have a more enriching education, and in the end it is real. School is not "only a game".